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Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. 2 The priest could not enter the House of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord’s temple. 3 When all the Israelites saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord upon the temple, they bowed down on the pavement with their faces down and they worshipped and praised the Lord, saying,
“He is good;
His faithful love endures forever.”
4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord. 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep and goats. So the king and all the people dedicated God’s temple. 6 The priests were standing at their positions, and were the Levites with the musical instruments of the Lord, which King David had made to praise the Lord—“for His faithful love endures forever”—whenever David offered praise by their ministry. The priests sounded trumpets opposite them, and all the Israelites were standing.
7 Solomon consecrated the middle part of the courtyard in front of the House of the Lord; because that was where he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings since the bronze altar that Solomon had made could not hold all the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat portions.
8 So Solomon observed the festival at that time for seven days, and all of Israel with him—a very large assembly, people from the entrance of Hamath to the Wadi of Egypt. 9 On the eighth day they held a sacred assembly, for they had celebrated the dedication of the altar for seven days, and the festival seven days more. 10 Then on the twenty third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad in heart for the goodness that the Lord had blessed on David, on Solomon, and on His people Israel.
11 So Solomon finished the House of the Lord and the king’s palace; and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into his heart to do for the House of the Lord and for his own palace.
12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him,
“I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a temple of sacrifice.
13 “When I shut up the heavens so there is no rain, or command the locusts to consume the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14 If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers that are made in this place. 16 For I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever; My eyes and My heart will always be there.
17 “As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances, 18 I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a man as ruler over Israel.’
19 “But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and commands that I have set before you, and if you go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will uproot Israel from My land that I have given them; and this temple I have consecrated for My Name I will cast out of My sight. I will make it an object of scorn and a byword among all peoples. 21 And though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ 22 Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshipped and served them. Because of this He has brought all this disaster on them’.”